Monday Motivation - Three Ways to Supercharge Your Creative Energy

Welcome to Monday Motivation - Three Ways to Supercharge Your Creative Energy

So, this is a five-minute version of a five-day course that I have in HappyWriter about how to build, maintain, and manage your creative energy. As I am putting the finishing touches on the core HappyWriter curriculum and the promise of the platform—all of that I'll share in a few weeks—the one skill that touches almost every part of the writing life and is interwoven into the curriculum is the ability to manage your energy.

People love to say that time is the most valuable resource, I know you've heard that before, but people are wrong.

Your most valuable resource is energy.

Look at it this way: you can have all the time in the world, but with no energy, you’ll get nothing done and be miserably aimless.

Inversely, you can have just a little time, but if you’re filled with energy, working will come easily. If you’ve ever sat down to write and felt completely drained, chances are one or more of your energy buckets are empty. A good example of the feeling of a drained energy bucket is when you are low on physical energy—aka you are really tired. Physically you are sluggish, mentally foggy, maybe even grouchy (or worse!). If you stay awake for just 18 hours, you’ll drive as if you have a blood-alcohol level of 0.05 (0.08 is considered drunk driving).

So forget about trying to write under those conditions!

I want to share three quick ways to increase your writing energy, but more than that, I want you to have overflowing creative energy, because nothing that feels better than sitting down and just writing with full focus and creative energy. To me, this full-energy experience is just as important as my output. It makes the long months and years of writing worth it.

To set this up, recognize your creative energy is like a muscle. You can use the muscle, but you then need to rest it. And also, just like a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger the muscle will get. So the more you learn to use your creative energy, train it, and strengthen it, and then let it rest, the "more in shape" your creative muscle will be. resulting in more energy to use.

If you want to go deep on this—so like five days of visualizations to help you tap into your energy, a workbook so you can document your progress, and focused lessons to help you really dive into your energy—I invite you to join HappyWriter. This course as well as many other author masterclasses, storytelling spotlights, and so much more is now live. It's all there to help you get your story onto the page, for just $39/month. Check out HappyWriter at howwriterswrite.com to sign up.

Thank you so much for listening, and I hope you have a wonderful week of writing.

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